Comment 110 for bug 303011

(In reply to comment #14)
> Created an attachment (id=24416) [details]
> i915-gem-disable.patch
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> With this patch applied on 2.6.29 you'll be able to disable gem with module
> parameter. Just load i915.ko with gem_enable=0.
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> This patch is only a workaround and is not intended to be clean.
>

Thank you for providing this patch. May it be applied to 2.6.28 too? (Comparing the .28 and .29 sources, I found the same pieces of code and I intend to use the ubuntu kernel source, which is based on .28 for jaunty.)
I'll try it when I have some time to compile the kernel(s), presumably early next week, and I'll report the results.